The Best Video Game Movies 2023 Trailers and Updates Watch on Netflix Plans
The year 1993 was the year that Hollywood finally realized the goal of putting a video game movie up on the big screen with the release of Super Mario Bros. This event set the foundation for a lengthy legacy of questionable choices, troublesome productions, and gamers’ pixel tears left behind in their wake. Yet much like the youngster who has to keep pumping in one more quarter to go for that high score, the studios keep on trying (and the fans just keep on hoping), and we’re saluting that sort of sheer perseverance with our guide to the best video game movies in this post.
For the sake of this list, we define a “video game movie” as a real film adaptation of an existing video game. Because of this definition, a film like Wreck-It Ralph, which is simply a movie about video games, does not meet the criteria for inclusion on this list. They only need to be based on a real game in order to qualify; they do not need to be faithful adaptations of the original game.
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- Assassin’s Creed
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu
- Tomb Raider
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- Sonic: The Hedgehog 2
- Wreck-It Ralph
- Angry Birds 2
- Rampage
- Monster Hunter
- Pixels
- Werewolves Within
- Warcraft
- Mortal Kombat
- Uncharted
